Yet again I find myself wide awake when I’d really rather be sleeping, and hoping that by banging my whirling thoughts on my keyboard, I’ll be able to get a few hours sleep. I feel like a broken record, but I know a lot of the insomnia comes from discomfort. I wake up in the […]

Tired of waiting for BOOBS! The exciting thing, is that the wait is almost over.  By this time next week, I’ll be home after my OUTPATIENT surgery to get rid of the rocks in my chest, and put in some nice, soft gummy bears. (Yes, I know I’ve spelled like 4 different ways.  I haven’t […]

I think the most frustrating thing for me at work in the last couple of months is that at least once a week someone asks me: “So are you back full time now?” I may not be in the office every day, and I blew through all of my vacation time with doctors appointments and […]

I love soundtracks. I think part of it is the idea that all life can have a soundtrack like it does in my head, but there’s also the intention of bringing in different musicians at just the right moment to add to the story in a way that dialogue, and even video, can’t do alone. […]

I’m sorry if you feel like I left you hanging last week.  Mom’s surgery went well, although afterwards (and she’ll hate me saying this) when she was in recovery, she looked old for the first time my brother and I could ever remember, which quite honestly, makes my heart hurt.  So for a few days […]

I’m really not a morning person. So being at the hospital in Seattle (45 min from home) at 5:15a, especially after picking up my little brother at the airport at 11:30p last night, is REALLY not my idea of fun. However, today is not about me.  Today is about mom. She’s scheduled to go first […]

I’ve been wearing a lot of lipstick lately. It’s hard to feel like a girl with franken-boobies, tiny eyelashes, and hair that bald men are jealous of… but to the rest of the world, still looks pretty dang bald. I don’t think I was really a girly-girl growing up, although I was never really a […]

My son’s teacher wanted the children to write individual notes to each student.  So we made felt fortune cookies, and my 9 year old typed out the “fortunes” to each of his friends. I’m pretty sure that my kid is the cutest thing ever… so I have to share with all of you. Mrs. R- […]

I go in every three months for a while, so I suppose that I shouldn’t expect much from my doctors visits, but this one was pretty uneventful.  I’d actually planned to write an update Tuesday, but there was so little new to say that I just wasn’t feeling it. Here’s the basics.  I told them how […]

This afternoon I see my doctor for the first time since I finished Chemo & started Tamoxifen, and I have a new obsession that I can’t get out of my head. If my mom went two years cancer free and it’s back, other than take a little white pill every morning, what do I need […]